noddyboater

Yes, I know carrying an uncovered air gun is illegal, you must also remove the magazine if it's a multishot pneumatic. I think the law has also changed so you must have a valid reason for having it in a public at all now.

They have unusual black pheasants in the woods there. Very plump and juicy, they wander around with little fear. I'm sure if you were to moor up and have a late evening wander with a well silenced decent air rifle you wouldn't come back empty handed. Not that I'm recommending Lady G does such a thing of course.

If you're at the woods between Retford and Forest Locks try tying up on the offside piling opposite the bollards. There was a good supply of windfall branches in there, and you may even be able to turn at the widest point of the bend. I can't at 60' but that's down to draught not length. I've seen the gamekeeper around but he never said anything about not mooring overnight there.

It's true that a splitting maul is needed for knotty gnarly stuff, but I've recently been converted to a felling axe for anything straight grained such as ash. It takes far less effort making it quicker and less tiring when you are lucky enough to have a good pile of logs. Something around 6lb, with a long shaft, but most importantly razor sharp. Of course it goes without saying to be extremely careful when swinging something like that around, it can do far more damage than a blunt maul.

I'd guess that not knocking down historic buildings without permission, not draining an old pond full of local flora & fauna without permission, and not using areas of the site to dump industrial waste before burning it overnight without permission would help speed up permission for a new service point.

Do you know who built Firefly, with the Kromhout semi diesel? That certainly looks like it's a loose replica of Pacific.

It's conventional for a working BCN tug. Several builders of modern "tug style" shells should spend a while studying it!

You should sort yourself one out. You can't beat a good tug.

Fit for purpose but a comfortable fit out too. I definitely do need 2 tugs but unfortunately can't afford it.

BCN tug Pacific will be on the market again soon, at Mercia Marina.

A friend of mine did exactly that. After the purchase of the house he really wanted fell through he picked another with the same agent at a similar price and made an offer. When I asked him what the local area was like he merely replied he'd never been there but it was near enough to the M1 and there's a 24 hour Tesco up the road. I suppose we're all different, but some more different than others.

I'd guess there's currently people buying boats the same way as they pick their next company car, from the spec sheet and colour. How it handles/drives is irrelevant, and as many haven't even had a week on a hire boat what would a test drive prove? Anyone who has steered a boat that's a proper boat shape, built by a boat builder not a fabricator in between skip orders, knows there's a massive difference. But if you haven't experienced it you'll never know.

It was a few months back, around July I think. A friend of mine who owns the CTS tug Strider is a customer of theirs and had been in touch with them. They had just had a load of work on some coastal vessels that would apparently keep them busy for a while.

That might be because the last I heard they were very busy out and about doing their regular work, big engines in big boats.

I'm guessing then that the speeding boat on Wednesday moors near a winding hole next to a pub. That's usually shut.

The only time I've ever paid anything like that for a stationary, it was shiny, had electric start and a box of unused spares.

£1800 is exactly a grand too much!

My mistake, I was half asleep. I wouldn't have thought either number was still in use.

R Tinker Welding Engineer. Baytree lane, Middleton, Manchester M242EL 01827 311317 From the Inland Boat Owners Book, late 90s I'd guess. A fully fitted 45' was 36k, the next entry was SM Hudson at 38k!

Used to build boats in a yard shared with G.Pikey but there was issues with steel going missing apparently.

Tony Dunkley? I think he's running the Plank & Leggit at Sawley Marina, two for one family fun pub.

And a cafe. And unlike most of the other properties mentioned here the inside doesn't look like it's come from the IKEA rejects bin.

You're not wrong with that one. Not many of you will remember that a few years back charging points were actually installed on the Chesterfield canal for a future electric hire boat that never happened. If it did happen though it would never have been successful as dossers soon discovered the posts were permanently on! The signs said something like " Please leave moorings clear for hire boat" Yeah right.

I believe that if there was already a T&M canal there and the new one was being built to shave 30 minutes off a journey time they would have felt about the same as I do.

I'm certainly no green warrior myself but I can't agree that any amount of jobs created makes up for the environmental devastation.